Concerns abroad about China’s surging exports have largely focused on “strategic sectors”. Less acknowledged is that China has been gaining significant global market share across the board, including in labour-intensive, lower-end industries that have historically been dominated by lower-income economies. These broad-based gains, which US tariffs have done little to slow, are the result of industrial policy and the supply and demand imbalance inside China.
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